“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understoodbackwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it mustbe lived forwards.”
-Soren Kierkegaard

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Beirce

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." anatole france

You do not have a soul.
you are a soul.
You have a body.
--CS Lewis

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
Sylvia Plath

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. Samuel Johnson

Jan Eyre still speaks truth:

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

In every work of genius we rec­og­nize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a cer­tain alien­ated majesty. Great works of art have no more affect­ing lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spon­ta­neous impres­sion with good-humored inflex­i­bil­ity then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with mas­terly good sense pre­cisely what we have thought and felt all the time…

“It’s not just about writing all the time. It’s about whether you’re doing the two things that’ll make you a good writer. Living and reading. I have no doubt that when you have something to say to the world, you’ll be able to do it. And if you can’t write? Good. Go read.” Junot Diaz, to a high school student
His book? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Read it.

the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which humanity casts uponPoets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the present; the words which express what they understand not; The trumpets which sign to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not but moves.Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the 100 other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the many things we haven’t done as the things we have done.” Steve Jobs